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Language English Media type Book Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons Preceded by To Have and Have Not | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 1938 Originally published 1938 Genre Short story collection Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by For Whom the Bell Tolls Similar Ernest Hemingway books, Classical Studies books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories is an anthology of writings by Ernest Hemingway published by Scribner's on October 14, 1938. It contains Hemingway's only full-length play, The Fifth Column, and 49 short stories.
Many of the stories included in the collection appear in other collections, including In Our Time, Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Some of the collection's important stories are rather short. It also includes some longer stories, among them "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
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The Fifth Column is set during the Spanish Civil War. Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic. The play was poorly received upon publication and has been overshadowed by many of the short stories in the anthology.
Among the short stories, the book includes Hemingway's previous volumes In Our Time, Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing. Furthermore, Hemingway added his latest published works "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge" as well as his very first writing, "Up in Michigan".